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Although national pundits have linked Tea Partiers to Indiana School Superintendent Tony Bennett’s loss against union official Glenda Ritz Nov. 6, polls and ground-level observation indicate the reformer lost largely by alienating moms and teachers. “Ritz was able to pick up some Tea Party support over their concerns about Common ...

Consumer Power Report #313 In the wake of President Barack Obama’s re-election, I explained the fallout for governors and the states. The chief issues to keep in mind are questions over the implementation of exchanges, the expansion of Medicaid, and the ramifications of continued legal fights against key aspects of the law. But ...

The nation’s largest abortion provider will soon teach more public school students about sex, thanks to federal funding in the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. For five years, the law allocates $75 million for Personal Responsibility Education Programs, and Planned Parenthood Federation of America will receive much ...

An alleged burglar who broke into the home of a 90-year-old California man and shot him in the head is now suing the homeowner because he shot back at the burglar. The burglar is now serving a six-year prison term for assault with a deadly weapon in an unrelated 2001 incident. He may be charged with attempted murder ...

Since the 2008 financial crisis, the effect of speculation on commodities pricing has been hotly debated. Although speculation in commodities may play a role in determining prices, price fluctuations are largely a response to the fundamental forces of supply and demand. Nonetheless, in the 2010 Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and ...

Climate Change Weekly #70 Every now and then developments in the global warming debate induce a deep-from-the-belly round of laughter. No, not the spit-your-coffee-out-of-your-mouth burst of comical surprise, but rather a deep, jovial, mirthful, full-body, prolonged healthy laugh. Last month, the IPCC smacking down Michael Mann for ...

Multiple states and other plaintiffs are continuing their lawsuits against President Obama’s administration over his mandate that employers provide coverage for contraception and abortifacients, despite being rebuffed by a federal judge. Seven states, three organizations, and two individuals are continuing their fight against the contraceptive ...

President Obama's re-election impacts the domestic policy future of the United States in a number of meaningful ways, but particularly in the arena of health care policy, where the law that bears his name is secure for at least four years. States that have resisted or slowed their implementation of Obamacare now face a number ...

Michigan voters defeated the union-backed Proposal 2, with 58 percent voting no and 42 percent voting yes. “I had full confidence in Michigan voters that they’d see the union power grab for what it was,” said Vincent Vernuccio shortly after the November 6 election results were known. Vernuccio is director of labor policy at ...

Most states begin legislative sessions in spring 2013, and several lawmakers have already indicated they will introduce Parent Trigger or school voucher legislation. Here’s a list. Parent Trigger: These laws, passed in seven states, allow a majority of parents whose children attend a failing school to require a specific reform ...

Absent action from Congress and the president, the United States will face what many are calling a “fiscal cliff” at the beginning of 2013. That describes the increase of several key tax rates as the early-2000s tax cuts expire, the reduction of certain jobs provisions, activation of $1.2 trillion in across-the-board budget ...

A new report pinpoints education savings accounts as the next-generation school voucher system for states committed to real education reform. ESAs deposit state per-pupil education spending into an account that parents control, letting them choose how to spend their child’s education dollars among different options such as online ...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) told reporters yesterday that he would like to see the U.S. Senate address climate change. At the same time, Democrat Reps. Henry Waxman (CA) and Bobby Rush (IL) wrote a letter to Chair of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Fred Upton (R-MI) calling for hearings on an asserted ...

Like their counterparts in other states across the country, Idaho policymakers are considering whether to expand Medicaid in line with the demands of President Obama’s health care law. Two recent reports sound caution about such a step, giving ample reason for the state to delay the expansion or reject it entirely. Leavitt ...

President Obama’s reelection with no change of leadership in the House and Senate means he and Education Secretary Arne Duncan will maintain current policies: multiple federal grants for favored initiatives and increased control over state and local education. “[Obama] has shifted the federal role in many ways,” said Jon Schnur ...

Voters around the nation went all over the map in responding to education initiatives on November’s ballot. Washington and Georgia voted to allow independent charter schools, Floridians rejected a measure that would have allowed direct vouchers, and some voters—notably in California—approved education tax hikes while others rejected ...

Academic literature has consistently illustrated that Medicaid patients—adults and children—have inferior access to health care, and notably poorer health outcomes, than privately insured patients. Due to the program's low reimbursement rates, more and more doctors are refusing to even accept Medicaid. As a result, it is becoming ...

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